Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-12-03

with their trumpets, we should hear some Of
the strains Of Antioch, and Mount Pisgah,
and Coronation, and Lenox and St Martins,
aud Fountain, and Ariel and Old Hundred
How they would bring to mind the praying
circles. and communion days, and the Christ
mas festivals, and the church worship in
which on earth we mingled have no idea
that when we bid farewell to earth we are to
hid farewell to all these grand old Gospel
HYMNS which melted and raptured our souls
for so many years. Now, my friends, IL sin
is discord and Righteousness is harmony, let
us get out of the one and enter the other.
After our dreadful civil war was over, and in
the summer of 1861. great national peace
Jubilee was held in Boston, and as an elder of
this church had been honored by the selec-
ton Of some of his music, to be rendered on
that occasion. l accompanied him to the
Jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood
in the great Coliseum erected for that pur-
pose. Thousands of wind and stringed in
struments Twelve thousand trained voices.
The masterpieces Of all ages rendered, hour
after hour and day after day = Handers
"Juias MaccabRus," Spohr's last Judg-
ment." Beethoven's Mount of Olives"
Havdu's s.Creation," "Mendelssohns ssEli-
jah.r Meyerbeeris Coronation March," roll
ing on aud up in surges that beloved against
the heavens The mighty cadence within
were accompanied on the outside by the
ringing of the bells of the city and cannon
on the commons, in exact time with the mu-
sic discharged by electricity. numbering
their awful bars Of harmony that astounded
all nations.
Sometimes bowed nv head and wept.
Sometimes stood up in the enchantment,
and sometimes the effect was so overpower-
ing | felt l could not endure il. When all
the voices were in full chorus, and all the
ba.ons in full wave. and all the orchestra in
full triumph, and a hundred anvils under
kr,,, IN. f.s1l al
thetowers of the city rolled in their m Nestle
sweetness, and the whole building quoked
with the boom of thirty cannon. Parepa
Rosa, with voice that will never again be
equaled on earth until the archangellc voice
pro-laims that tins shall be no longer, rose
above all other sounds in her rendering Of
our national air, the ''Star Spangled Ban
ner." Il was too much for mortal, aud
quite enough for an immortal, to hear, and
while some tainted, one womanly spirit, re-
leased under its power, sped away to be with
God.
o Lord, our God, quickly usher in the
whole worlds peace jubilee, and all
islands of the sea join the five conti-
nents, and all the voices and musical
instruments of all nations combine, and all
the organs that ever sounded requiem OF
sorrow sound only grand march Of joy, and
all the bells that tolled for burial ring for
resurrection. and all the cannon that ever
hurled death across the nations sound to
eternal victory, and over all the acclaim Of
earth and minstrely of heaven there will be
heard one voice sweeteer and mightier than
any human or angelic voice-a voice once
full of tears but now full Of triumph-the
voice of Christ saying: 81 am Alpha and
Omega. the beginning and the end the first
and the last" Then at the laying of the top
stone of the worlds history the same voices
shall be heard as when, at the laying of the
worlds cornerstone, 1.-THE morning stars sang
torefhern